Video: Shahram Izadi - Microsoft Next 2012
The use of interactive 3-D technologies with KinectFusion, from Microsoft Research Cambridge, to incorporate the physical world into the digital is one of the projects in the Microsoft Next 2012...
View ArticleGreenButton Introduces New Cloud-Based Media Indexing Service
GreenButton inCus is a cloud-based media-indexing solution powered by the Microsoft Research Audio Video Indexing Service to optimize search and discovery capabilities for large media archives.
View ArticleDo You Need a Digital Will?
Things We've Learnt About Memory, the latest publication from the Socio-Digital Systems team at Microsoft Research Cambridge, is a thought-provoking read.
View ArticleInspiring Computer-Science Students in Our Backyard
It is important that young women realize that computer scientists support and develop tools, services, and devices that can change the world for the better.
View ArticleMicrosoft Research’s Jennifer Chayes: 5 Projects for the Future of Computing
Jennifer Chayes, managing director of Microsoft Research New England, discusses that lab's investigations into empirical economics, computational theory, and social networks.
View ArticleShawn Walker to Intern at Microsoft
Shawn Walker, an iSchool Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington, was selected for the prestigious social-science internship at Microsoft Research New England.
View ArticleInside Microsoft Research: A ‘Lifetime’ of Service Recognized
Kevin Schofield, general manager of Microsoft Research, has been awarded the Lifetime Service Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction.
View ArticleMicrosoft and Computer-Science Teachers—Inspiring the Next Generation
Microsoft has great interest in inspring the next generation of computer scientists, which is why it is a major supporter of the ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education.
View ArticleMicrosoft’s MAVIS Audio and Video Indexing - Now Available on Demand
The Microsoft Research Audio Video Indexing System enables search across audio and video files for instances when a particular word is mentioned.
View ArticleBahl Achieves Alma Mater’s Distinction
In Boston on April 17, Victor Bahl, director of Microsoft Research’s Mobile Computing Research Center, will be honored as one of the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Distinguished Alumni.
View ArticleShrinking Kinect for Mobile: Q&A with Bill Buxton of Microsoft Research
Bill Buxton of Microsoft Research discusses Kinect, how long it takes technology to come to market, and the differences between academia and industry.
View ArticleInside Microsoft Research: Bolstering Windows Phone Translation
The Translator App for Windows Phone, updated April 16, features several contributions from Microsoft Research.
View ArticleOpen Data for Open Science—an Eye-Opening Event
The second annual Open Data for Open Science workshop featured Microsoft researchers and engineers who are working on cutting-edge computing technologies.
View ArticleA New Way to Get Climate Information
A team from Microsoft Research Cambridge has created a tool that turns climate data into useful information and makes it available to the world.
View Article2012 Women to Watch: Jennifer Chayes
Jennifer Chayes, managing director4 of Microsoft Research New England, discusses her job, her motivation, and increasing the role of women in computer science.
View ArticleInside Microsoft Research: Great Story Just Out on Bill Buxton
Distro, a magazine-like publication from the folks at Engadget, just published its 37th issue, and featured on the cover and in a fascinating Q&A is Bill Buxton, principal researcher at Microsoft...
View ArticleMicrosoft Research: Bringing Sexy Back
Microsoft Research is a 20-year-old group where some of Microsoft’s most interesting, edgiest ideas percolate and sometimes come to fruition.
View ArticleMicrosoft Israel Presents Israeli Start-Up Companies
At the Think Next 2012 conference in Tel Aviv, Microsoft presented 40 new technologies, 20 of them Israeli-made.
View ArticleChronoZoom Arrives in Asia
During the Second Congress of the Asian Association of World Historians, in Seoul, South Kores from April 27 to 29, the ChronoZoom history project will receive its Asian launch.
View ArticleOlympic Torch Wins UK Design of the Year 2012 Award
Microsoft Research has been named co-winner of the Design Museum's Design Awards' Digital Award for helping to create the Kinect for Xbox 360 hands-free game controller.
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